Actually…there’s no cat amongst the pigeons…but mushrooms amongst the carrots! I don’t know what has caused these to grow, but clearly some mushroom spawn is in the soil! Mushrooms are popping up all around our carrots. And they grow so quickly – these grew in less than 24 hours!
I put compost from our bins into our gardens quite frequently for two main reasons:
- it helps with mulching the garden to keep the mositure in the soil
- it has lots benefits for plants by helping them grow and returns the nutrients to the soil
Lately I’ve been chucking the mushroom paper bags into the compost too as they decompose really quickly. Perhaps that’s how the spawn got into our garden..who knows? I actually have a mushroom growing kit at home ready to go and keep forgetting to ring the number to get the spawn delivered…must really do that some time so I can try it out!
But in the interim – I will monitor the progress of these self-spawned mushies and perhaps we’ll get a little side harvest of mushrooms, and if not…they’ll make excellent compost!
Speaking of harvesting….I really ought to harvest these carrots tomorrow! One looks like it might be going to seed. My husband has been telling me that it looks like a trunk on a tree, and I should harvest it. Alas – I haven’t had a call for carrots in any meals over the past few days, so will find something nice to eat with carrots this weekend!
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